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Who Cares About Communion? with Christopher Wells
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What is Christian Communion? And who cares? If you listen to this podcast, you probably do. Today we're not talking about the Lord's supper, but the longing for and practical work toward Christian unity. What does this have to do with the average Christian? Or the average pastor trying to focus on local ministry? How do Anglicans care about (and st…
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Preaching the Transfiguration with Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
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Ever run out of preaching material for a major feast day? May today's episode inspire you. It's funny how the gospel unveils and then veils itself to us in seasons of our ministry and preaching. There are so many times when there's more than we can capture. And then other times it feels lilke the well runs dry on the same passage we've come to for …
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Life, Liturgy, and Live Music with Leila Way and Ryan Flanigan
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Today we've got live music in the studio, reminding us of God's faithfulness in conflict and pain, and why beauty, the arts, and artists are so vital to and for the Church. Singer-songwriters Leila Way and Ryan Flanigan join us from Resurrection South Austin to play some new tunes for us and talk about the intersections of music with church life, f…
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Conversation Across Difference with Kelli Joyce and Jordan Hylden
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Listen to our first Conversation Across Difference, Episode 102. Join us at the God at 'I' Level photography exhibit. Progressive and conservative: do ever the twain meet? What are safe spaces across current divides on topics that matter? And, when we do talk across divides, how do we get below the surface? Today's Conversation Across Difference is…
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Ephraim Radner on Christian Politics and Mortal Goods
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What's the proper scope of Christian politics? Should Christians be politically active, and if so, how? Is the political sphere and its options a place of anxiety and ceaseless activity that should be avoided? Is it a place of possibility to "bring heaven to earth"? Does it have value as a place of failure and limitation? And what do politics have …
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Stephanie Spellers on Being an Episcopal Evangelist
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Episcopalians have a love-hate relationship with evangelism. Everyone is welcome into an Episcopal church, but how do they get there? Is it true that "everyone who should be an Episcopalian, is"? Isn't evangelism what other Christians do who have lots of enthusiasm but less natural restraint and good taste? Is there an Episcopal, or even an Anglica…
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Flannery O’Connor’s Heathen Rage with Jessica Hooten Wilson and Steve Prince
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Learn more about the Human Pilgrimage conference. Learn more about Steve Prince's work. Learn more about Jessica Hooten Wilson's work. A disgruntled white southern intellectual named Walter lives on his family's farm. They all think his fancy learning makes him good for nothing. On top of that, Walter thinks he's dying. Walter decides to pretend, t…
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EPN Special with Al-Ahli Arab Hospital Director Suhaila Tarazi
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Donate to the Ahli Arab Hospital. Today's is a short and very special conversation captured on the fly at the Episcopal Parish Network Conference in Houston, Texas, with Dr. Suhaila Tarazi. If you haven't heard of Suhaila, then you have certainly heard of her workplace. She is the director of the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, which was recently in th…
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Follow Philip Yancey's blog. Read Philip's new book, Undone. No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am inv…
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Check out John Behr's new translation of Gregory of Nyssa's On the Human Image of God. What does it mean to be human? We pay attention to our broken humanity more during Lent. And there's that phrase, when we make a mistake, "I'm only human!" True. But what about the glory and promise of being human? What kind of humanity we see in the pattern of C…
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Neurodivergence in the Classical Classroom with Nate Carr
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Get in touch with Fr. Nate for further conversation. Check out Fr. Nate's book, Festive School. Read Fr. Nate's article on neurodivergence in the classical classroom. Learn more about Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). When trying to consider budget as well as mission and ministry, churches of many sizes offer educational service, from a s…
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Buy the Roads of Hurt and Hope Holy Land Lenten study. (All proceeds go to the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem.) All eyes are on the Holy Land right now, as the conflict between Hamas and Israel continues, over a hundred kidnapped Israelis still missing, over a thousand Israeli civilians dead, and tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed in …
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Jesus Through Medieval Eyes with Grace Hamman
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Learn more about the Living Church and check out some of our favorite podcast episodes. Happy Epiphany! I love seasons, the changes of seasons. The distinct character of each one. Different seasons and times bring out different flavors, different inner lives of the land and landscapes. I think humans are similar. Even whole cultures. Different eras…
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Martyrdom and Ministry with Stanley Hauerwas and Ephraim Radner
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Learn more about the Living Church and check out some of our favorite podcast episodes. Welcome back, podcast listeners. A happy Epiphany to you. Let's start off the year with a bang. This episode is from a conversation between Dr. Stanley Hauerwas and the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner at the Radical Vocation (RADVO) conference at Church of the Incarnati…
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Give to The Living Church Gift the Magazine for $9.95 Welcome podcast listeners. Today we've got an episode that will lightly leap from Advent to Christmastide. We'll revisit four conversations we've had over the years: James K. A. Smith on time and Immanuel Novelist H.C. Cross on boarding schools and world-building Lauren Winner on books and readi…
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Make an Advent donation to the Living Church. Get 84% off a gift subscription to The Living Church In the beginning, creation. Millennia pass. Creatures alternately live peacefully then get it horribly wrong. Long genealogies. The rise of evil kings, good kings, battles and prophecies. A savior riding in on a white horse. And in between the excitin…
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Give to support the Living Church Podcast studio! Check out No Small Endeavor, hosted by Lee C. Camp. Who knew that a Southern mother would help today's guest hone the gift of gab for the sake of others? Today you'll hear my conversation with Dr. Lee C. Camp, about the art of conversation. I'm excited to share this, especially with those who talk, …
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